Chapter 44: The Difference Between Cultured and Wild Pearls
Originally, Ji Juan was going to let the three of them go to help her the next day and Sunday, but because of the pearl incident, she asked Li Nan not to go out, stay quietly at home, and order takeout directly if she wanted to eat.
Then she took Li Ji and Li Tong out, and asked the two of them to help Li Jianguo, while she took those round pearls and went to her friend's jewelry store to see the situation.
Ji Juan and her friends haven't been in touch for half a year, and in normal times, unless some normal friends get together, there is not much contact with each other in private. But after thinking about it, except for such a friend who has a deep study of jewelry, no other friend has any deep understanding of pearls!
If I took these pearls to other places and unfamiliar jewelry stores, I always felt that the other party would not tell the truth, so I had to trouble her old friend.
"It's really Juan'er! I haven't seen you for half a year, you look a lot older than before, what's going on lately?" The two met again, and Tong Li still greeted them very affectionately.
"You are really, for so many years, every time we meet, I don't have any good words! Say that I can die if I have two good words!" Ji Juan was also very speechless about her outspoken nature, but she didn't think she was deliberately talking about herself, after so many years of getting along, every time she was this virtue, can you not know that this is her nature?
Tong Li's face was not unhappy, and she still smiled and said: "You don't know about me, what do you say, your face is indeed not as good as half a year ago!"
When you are old, you have to know maintenance, like our age, it won't take a few years to be almost menopausal, and if you don't maintain it, when will you wait, wait until you are seventy or eighty?"
Ji Juan was so choked by her that she was almost speechless, what is the age of menopause? Although she is over forty years old, she will not be said like this!
"Okay, okay, I won't tell you these things, if I talk to you every day, I will be angry with you sooner or later, I have something to ask you for help this time!" Ji Juan hurriedly stopped the topic and said her intention this time, if she continued to greet like this, she would have to hold back her internal injuries.
"If you have something to ask me for help!What is the matter?Are you going to buy a gift for someone and ask me for a discount or what?" Tong Li also felt a little confused, she was a jewelry seller, what could she do to find herself, it couldn't be to borrow money.
"No, that's it, I recently got some pearls, but I don't know if this thing is good or bad, so I'll show it to you!" Ji Juan also knows that when talking to someone of her temperament, she has to explain things directly, and she must not go around the bend, if she does, she is really not sure if she can understand.
"Pearls, this thing is very difficult to produce treasures, and now there are many artificially cultivated ones, and some poor quality is basically the life of grinding powder!" Tong Li didn't think that Ji Juan could come up with any good pearls, so she gave her a preventive injection in advance.
"I know, but isn't that a freshwater pearl you're talking about? Haizhu is still okay at present, even if it is farmed, the value of Haizhu is not very low!
Moreover, didn't you tell us about some pearl identification methods before, I looked at your methods, and I think my pearls should be wild sea pearls!" Ji Juan continued to say her thoughts, and as she spoke, she took out a jewelry box from her bag.
This jewelry box was originally used to hold necklaces, but the necklace has always been worn around the neck, so the jewelry box is empty, just used to put pearls.
"Wild, that's pretty rare. Tong Li took the jewelry box suspiciously, opened it in front of Ji Juan, and saw the pearls inside.
"Oh my boy, you're so lucky that I am jealous!
Hurry up, go to my office and say, it's not very safe out there. Tong Li touched the beads twice, shone a little in the sun, quickly closed the jewelry box, and pulled Ji Juan to his office.
This jewelry store was originally opened by her, and although the store area is not large, it is more than enough to have an office inside.
Tong Li pulled Ji Juan to the office, and after closing the office door, she didn't pour tea for her, she sat down directly, sat down face to face, and said with an excited face: "Sister Juan, let me tell you, you are going to make a fortune this time, remember to treat you when you look back!"
"Ten thousand yuan of profit, are you embarrassed to ask me to treat you?" Ji Juan had calculated by herself that the sum of these beads should be more than 20,000 yuan, so she didn't think that what she said about making a fortune was a lot of money, but she could only say that she was a little surprised.
"Oh, why are you so stupid!
Okay, how about you sell me all 50,000 yuan!" Tong Li still laughed.
Hearing her say this, coupled with the intonation, tone and complexion, it clearly means that these beads are not as simple as she thought.
"No, just how much these beads can be worth, and according to the knowledge you told me, although these beads are good, I don't say how good they are!" Ji Juan held back the joy in her heart, but still asked curiously.
"Hey, what I told you last time was just some fur, and I didn't talk to you much about the identification of specific values and the like, and the most I told you was to identify the authenticity of pearls, and as for the specific value estimates, we have to come to us insiders.
And over the years, the price of pearls has fluctuated greatly, you don't look at the price of those pearls sold outside now is generally not high, and even the price of some pearls is still falling, those are artificially cultured pearls, although the share of cultured pearls is very large, but because of this, the price of wild will be even higher.
Don't talk about pearls these days, it's pearl powder, you have to add more zeros than artificially cultivated ones if you set a wild one. Pearl powder, ordinary people really can't distinguish the real from the fake, but the pearl is much easier to distinguish, a little study for two years, there is no one who can't distinguish the difference between artificial breeding and wild pearls.
The price of wild freshwater beads has also risen in recent years, not to mention seawater beads, which have a low beading rate and a lower roundness rate.
Don't look at my shop, this shop is not small, all the pearls in this store, only that pair, the pair of earrings in the center is a real wild sea pearl, and the others are artificially farmed.
That pair of pearls is not big, only 12 millimeters, the price is 33,000, although my side of the profit is also a lot, but the price of the beads itself is also there!" If it is not an acquaintance, Tong Li is really willing to spend 50,000 yuan to buy these pearls, but how many years of friends, if he really does this, if he is found in the future, this friend really did nothing.